Ironer pad



Feb. 10, 1942. J. A. CASTRICONE 2 2,272,238

IRONER PAD Filed April 26. 1939 cfarz (Z. ar/246m Patented Feb. 10, 1942 IRONER PAD John A. Castricone, Peoria, 111., assignor to Altorfer Bros. Company, Peoria, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application April 26, 1939, Serial No. 210,138

1 Claim.

This invention relates to padding for ironer bucks or rolls and will be described as applied to the roll of a domestic roll ironer.

All machine ironing is done on a yielding or padded surface because the mechanics of ironing require resilience in the cloth-supporting surface to compensate for irregularities in the material ironed and any lack of accuracy of contact between the ironer shoe and buck. Further, such padding must have the ability to absorb the moisture from the material being ironed because ironing is the process of removing moisture from cloth as it is smoothed or pressed. In a roll ironer the moisture is removed as the material passes by the ironer shoe firmly and resiliently supported between the shoe and the padding. It will be appreciated that this requires a very short space of time and that the moisture removed from the cloth must be largely driven into the padding. It is estimated that 80% of the moisture removed in the ironing process must be absorbed into the padding during the short space of time the material passes by the shoe. The same conditions apply in press ironing where the moisture is driven into the buck as the shoe holds the cloth in contact with the buck.

Ironer padding has largely been made of fabrics such as thick cotton warp materials or felts of wool or mixed materials. Such pads readily become water-soaked and thus loose their ability to absorb moisture. Because of their lack of ability to evaporate or otherwise dispose of the absorbed moisture, such. fabric paddings also lose their resiliency after a short period of use and have a tendency to become hard, which destroys their ironing efliciency. Thus fabric pads lose their eifectiveness and the ironer is blamed for deficiencies in ironing which are wholly the result of this loss in padding eificiency.

Various expedients have been practiced to overcome this fault. Pads have been mounted on springs to retain their resiliency. In commercial laundries pads are removed at frequent intervals and fiuffed up and rested while replacement pads are in use. Metal fiber padding has become popular in commercial laundries.

However, none of these expedients are entirely feasible in domestic ironers because of economic considerations and the housewifes lack of the required skill to remove and properly replace the pads. Also domestic ironers, used as they are for only four or five hours one day a week and then stored idle, subjects the padding to particularly hard conditions. The wet, damp pad is usually closed within a cabinet top where there is no circulation of air and thus it remains damp over a long period of time.

The particular object of this invention is to provide a low-cost ironer pad that resists water soaking, that is quickly dried out in normal service and that retains its resiliency for a long period of use.

Other objects and benefits will be disclosed in the following descriptions and drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation view of a domestic ironer roll mounted on an ironer head with the ironer shoe in position;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged broken sectional view of the ironer roll, padding, covers and shoe as it would appear on the section lines 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a small top isometric view showing the pad as made in its flat development.

Now referring to Fig. l, I show a conventional ironer roll l0 complete with padding and cover which is mounted on an ironer head I! and has a conventional ironer shoe ll inworking relationship to the roll. This is a conventional structure which'will be well understood and need not be explained in further detail.

Now referring to Fig. 2, I show in section the tubular roll I 3 .with padding mounted thereon and with the ironer shoe IS in ironing contact with the padding. The shoe I9 has a conventional heating element 20 clamped against its inner surface to apply heat and has a. shoe cover 2| enveloping and enclosing the heating elements or other heating means.

My ironer pad is actually a quilted pad, the stufling material It being completely enclosed within a fabric l4 and quilted by stitching II, as shown. Attached to the quilted section is a plain fabric section l5 as'clearly shown in Fig. 3. I.

make an accurate development of the roll padding which can be wrapped around the roll I! with the edges abutting at l9 and being compressed and held in position by the flap l5 which is wrapped around the quilted section and securely held in place by stitches i8 lengthwise of the pad.

, I employ glass wool stufling l6 and-select for my purpose a rather coarse, tough grade of glass wool which is both resilient and water-proof.

As the quilted section is stufied in its flap development it is approximately three times as thick as it becomes when applied on the roll l3.

by the flap i5 this thickness is compressed about of thickness.

The surface of the roll is then finished-by applying in a conventional manner about two wraps of canton flannel covering 22 anda conventional cover 23. This method of finishing a roll as aforesaid is conventional and need not be described in further detail. 4

The use of glass wool for padding as above described, is made possible by my quilting and compression method. It will be appreciated that,

This, in conjunction drive out such moisture. Moreover, the padding being extremely porous, is readily aerated. which greatly assists the drying action when the machine is stored. To assist such drying action I a provide a series of openings. in the shell. Also,

the glass wool l6 being neither animal nor vegetable matter, it does not become mouldy.

Having thus described my invention, I claim: Inan ironer buck pad, a completely enclosed cloth fabric section, an "inorganic matted fiber stufiing enclosed within said section, quilt stitching throughout the enclosed section, said enclosed cloth section and stitching co-acting to compress the fiber stufling to a fraction of its loose volume and to retain the fibers within the enclosed quilted section with developed dimensions to fit the buck, and a fabric flap attached to the quilted section, said 'flap being of sufficient length to envelop the pad on the buck,

whereby the pad may be first compressed in firm resilient quilted form, applied to fit the buck and retained in compressed relation on the buck.

' JOHN A. CASTRICONE. 

